Where are you headed?

Where are you headed?

Bible:2 Samuel 12

Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” (V.7).

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In northern Thailand, the Wild Boars youth football team decided to explore a cave together. After an hour they turned to go back and found that the entrance to the cave was flooded. Rising water pushed them deeper into the cave, day after day, until they were finally trapped more than two miles inside. Once they had been heroically rescued two weeks later, people started asking how they had become so hopelessly trapped. The answer: one step at a time. Nathan confronted King David for killing his loyal soldier, Uriah. How did the man “after [God’s] own heart” (1 SAMUEL 13:14) become guilty of murder? One step at a time. David didn’t go from hero to murderer in one afternoon. He warmed up to it, over time, as one bad decision bled into others. It started with a second glance that turned into a lustful stare at Bathsheba (Uriah’s wife). He abused his kingly power by sending for Bathsheba, then tried to cover up her pregnancy by calling her husband home from the war David should have been fighting in. When Uriah refused to visit his wife while his fellow soldiers were fighting, David decided murder was his only option. We may not be guilty of murder, or be trapped in a cave of our own making, but we’re either moving towards Jesus or towards trouble. Big problems don’t develop overnight. They sneak up on us gradually, one step at a time.

IF WE’RE NOT RUNNING TO JESUS,
WE’RE RUNNING AWAY

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